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The Wilton Tennis Club is a lively and friendly club situated south of Wimbledon town centre. It thrives on a healthy mix of social and competitive tennis, played throughout the year, and caters for a variety of memberships from full annual membership through to the junior level.
A Social tennis ‘convenor’ organises sets during busy times to encourage all members to play social tennis, and of course, during less busy times the courts are all yours.
The club has eight men’s and four ladies’ teams playing in Surrey leagues and offers regular coaching sessions for team players. As well as team competitions, the Club runs closed summer and winter tournaments and operates monthly singles leagues.
There are four new high quality ‘Four Seasons’ courts. They are all weather courts with new, free floodlighting and so are available throughout the year.
Wilton Club is run by its members. A volunteer spirit is encouraged. Each year a committee is elected to perform some of the jobs necessary to secure the smooth running of the club. Elections take place at the annual general meeting, which is usually held in March. All full members are eligible to stand for election.
We hope that after reading what the Wilton Tennis Club has to offer you will want to join. If you have any further questions then please call the Club Secretary, Terry Oakes, or the Club Coach, Kim Freebairn or, alternatively, come down and talk to us.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Wilton in the near future. |
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Our Summer tournament was played throughout in good weather and our finals day included several very competitive matches. There was an Australian double in the singles event with Paul Johnson and Kim Freebairn triumphing over Olly Lester and Rochelle van der Walt. Olly was on court for over five hours in total but also narrowly lost (with Gyuri Mathe) to last year's runners-up Tim Barkey and Martyn Lunn.in the mens doubles. Congrats to Tim for his first ever championship title at Wilton. Kim also won the ladies doubles with Michaela Knespl against Ann Chadwick and Mary Franck. Rochelle teamed up with Dham Ekanayake to win the mixed final against Tim and Jo Barkey.
2010 Mens Singles Champion - Paul Johnson |
2010 Ladies Singles Champion - Kim Freebairn |
2010 Mens Doubles Champions - Martyn Lunn and Tim Barkey |
2010 Ladies Doubles Champions - Kim Freebairn and Michaela Knespl |
2010 Mixed Doubles Champions - Dham Ekanayake and Rochelle van derWalt |
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Our Ladies ATT team had an excellent season in winning six of their seven fixures to finish 2nd in the South East regional division. Having narrowly defeated eventual winners Esporta Brighton only a loss at St George's Weybridge prevented us from gaining promotion to the prestigious National Division. Our Mens team bounced back from last year's relegation to win Surrey Division 2 thanks in large part to James Eden's enthusiastic captaincy. For the first time we also fielded both Ladies and Mens 2nd team who both found some of the other teams a little too strong. Thanks to Kay Crooks and Neil McAffer for organising these teams.
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Over 50 players took part in our annual one set SuperSets competition which took place on Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May. Despite cold weather the competition was enjoyed by all and benefitted from having ABTO umpires and ball bys and girls from the Lynn Jones Ballpersons Academy. The event started at 9 am and competition was tight between the lower rated players. The highest rated players then took on the eight qualifiers in the round of the last 16. Despite several close matches the eight seeds all won-unlike last year when qualifiers beat the top four seeds. On court coaching was encouraged and the umpired matches included the popular 'two free points' ruler Last year's winner Eliot Dimmock fell at the semi final stage leaving Tom Inskip to defeat his Roehampton club-mate Nik Snapes in the final.
Supersets Finalists - Nik Snape & Tom Inskip &
The Umpires / Lines People / Ball Kids
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After a particularly harsh winter our Finals Day was played in glorious sunshine. No less than 137 matches were played in the ten events which is a tribute to the enthusiasm of our members.
Star of the day was Head Coach Kim Freebairn who celebrated her last hirsute day (at least for a while) by winning all three main events- on each occasion defeating Rochelle van der Walt in the finals. The mens singles was won by Ted Boyce in three very close sets against Henry Brooks. Ted thereby won his fourth mens singles title and his first since 1998!
Ashley Balm won two more doubles title (with Tom Coombe and Kim) to raise his career total to a record-breaking 34. Two of the age group finals featured the redoubtable Martyn Lunn. Martyn was on court for almost five hours non stop in losing closely to Gyuri Mathe in the 35's and coming back to defeat Shervin Nejand in the 45's. The 55's final fell victim to the volcanic ash which caused Gerry Doyle to disappear from the Wilton radar!
The drawn mixed saw a three set victory for Beth Frith and Kevin Laws against Ann and James Chadwick. Kevin also featured in a hard fought Handicap Singles final against Chris Drew. Chris's excellent account of the day can be seen by clicking here.
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Wilton is very proud of the success of our junior teams. Thanks to Alex Kamieniecki, Tom Coombe, Kallum and Savannah Challenger we are the current holders of both Surrey Boys and Girls 18 trophies. Our Mixed 14 team was runner up in last year's competition and have high hopes of going one better this year. Our Girls and Boys 16 teams have competed successfully in the 1st Surrey divisions of the National Junior Club Leagues and a new group of promising 14 boys have been very competitive in their division. Our Boys 16 and 14 teams both won the new winter Surrey Invitation leagues.
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